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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2014-08-05 13:27:13 +0400 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2014-08-05 13:27:13 +0400 |
| commit | 7109561524dc57b95fd3f9b61547268b9b6db8ed (patch) | |
| tree | df08f565b2c616b7e68fe35cd428a8c5ba3bfcb1 /Documentation/email-clients.txt | |
| parent | 6bf755db4d5e7ccea61fb17727a183b9bd8945b1 (diff) | |
| parent | 3bb70de692f70861f5c5729cd2b870d0104a7cc9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-7109561524dc57b95fd3f9b61547268b9b6db8ed.tar.xz | |
Merge branches 'fixes' and 'misc' into for-next
Conflicts:
arch/arm/kernel/iwmmxt.S
arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index 4e30ebaa9e5b..9af538be3751 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ Email clients info for Linux ====================================================================== +Git +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular +email clients. The man page for this is quite good. On the receiving +end, maintainers use `git am` to apply the patches. + +If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save it +as raw text including all the headers. Run `git am raw_email.txt` and +then review the changelog with `git log`. When that works then send +the patch to the appropriate mailing list(s). + General Preferences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as |